This was inevitable. I've been calling this out for years at this point. This was ALWAYS the game. They are now going to seed and adjust corpuses and models to allow advertisers to affect outcomes for money.

Ttechcrunch.comOct 3, 2024 4:03pm

Google brings ads to AI Overviews as it expands AI’s role in search

Google brings ads to AI Overviews as it expands AI’s role in search

Google is rolling out a redesigned AI Overviews experience — with ads — and expanding its test of AI-organized results pages. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Google is really innovating by making a thing we already hate worse somehow!